Saffron search for Muslim vote: BJP’s outreach to Pasmandas is electorally and ideologically smart, but it won’t be smooth sailing

 Saffron search for Muslim vote: BJP’s outreach to Pasmandas is electorally and ideologically smart, but it won’t be smooth sailing

August 7, 2022, 8:21 PM IST Hilal Ahmed in TOI Edit Page, Edit Page, India, politics, TOI

Hilal Ahmed

The writer is Associate Professor, 

Centre for the Study of Developing Societies

The assertion that Pasmanda Muslims, the most deprived sections of Muslim society, want honour (samman) not affection (sneh) shows that BJP’s enthusiastic attempt to attract Pasmanda Muslims into the Hindutva framework is not a simple and uncomplicated question of political strategy.

In a recent meeting organised by All Indian Memon Conference in Mumbai, a few leading Pasmanda leaders, including former MP Ali Anwar Ansari, made it clear that BJP should have to recognise the specific concerns of Pasmanda Muslims for any meaningful discussion on their backwardness and marginalisation.

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BJP, the Nationalist ruling party in the largest democracy in the world, has no Muslim representation, even when nearly 20% of the population are Muslims ... must raise the questio n why, and what are the implications for the future ...??!! ... 

(1). Pasmandas or non-Pasmandas, the Muslims are ideologically hardened across the board ... !! ... Islam that the world knows is Political Islam, with a covert Expansionist agenda ... It is a violent, intolerant Cult, of which highly efficient and effective Brain-washing is an integral part ... !! ...The 7th century edicts and tenets of Quran can not be questioned or argued upon, even though some of them are outright violent, intolerant, regressive and offensive to the other faiths, and also to the women within the followers of Islam ... that is a Sin that deserves beheading, according to the Mullahs ... !! ... The Mullahs are specially skilled in Brain-washing, convincing the followers repeatedly on weekly basis, that Quran is above all arguments ... can not be questioned ... !! ... 

(2). BJP's pro-Hindutva Nationalism of protecting Hindu culture and civilization, goes directly against the fundamental expansionist agenda of Islam in India ... Therefore BJP's mission to attract the poorer and backward section of the Muslims towards its Nationalist ideology is not likely to have much success, without reforms within the Muslim community ... !! ... 

(3) What India needs is not dealing with Islam's regressive, expansionist agenda with a Soft, Constitutionally mandated legal provisions of Secular ideals ... But a China like forced reforms ... !! ... The Islamic dream of Ghazwa-E-Hind, which is discussed on TV in Pakistan on regular basis by their Islamic scholars like Orya Maqbool Jaan, is a credible and immediate threat ... can not be ignored or taken lightly ... !! ... India must do all it can, amend the Constitution if needed, to make sure Islam in India is reformed as per the need of the country, and not left to the Mullahs as business-as-usual ... !!

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